Richard Pelzer Quotes

#1. I'm young in spirit and have lots of energy.

Doug Hutchison

#2. Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

Ann Patchett

#3. The only person you have to impress is yourself

Miriam Norwitz

#4. The value of just one soul is greater than any single thing upon this earth. For there can be nothing greater than raising a child in preparation for that journey back to where he came from, a place where his immortal father lives, a place known as heaven, a place called home.

Richard B. Pelzer

#5. I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.

J. August Richards

#6. You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.

Democritus

#7. In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

Bo Burnham

#8. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

#9. War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

Victor Davis Hanson

#10. Humans would ruin it, just as they'd destroyed so many of their own natural wonders.

Melissa Landers

#11. The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

Sheldon Richman